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The Cat and the Mice (AESOP)

There was once a house that was overrun with Mice. A Cat heard of this, and said to herself, "That's the place for...

04 June, 2023

To lay great value upon what other people say is to pay them too much honor. (ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER)

By a peculiar weakness of human nature, people generally think too much about the opinion which others form of them; although the slightest...

02 June, 2023

Margot Fonteyn

Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE, born Margaret Evelyn Hookham, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, (18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991)...

01 June, 2023

THE DANCING FISH (ANDREEVICH KRYLOV)

The Lion somehow grew suspicious, from rumours it heard, that the scales had been falsified in its law courts; so, having found a...

31 May, 2023

This is empathy – putting oneself into somebody else’s place (OSHO)

Sympathy is of the mind: you feel somebody is in trouble, somebody is in misery; you think somebody is in misery and you...

30 May, 2023

Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love (DON MIGUEL RUIZ)

When a human is born, the emotional mind, the emotional body, is completely healthy. Maybe around three or four years of age, the...

29 May, 2023

Is it so hard to care about others too? (JOHN-PAUL FLINTOFF)

The Victorian artist and writer Οhm Eman once asked why we give medals to people who, in a moment and without much thought,...

28 May, 2023

The levelling effect of popular opinion (PLATO – JULIA ANNAS)

Plato's distrust of the effects of popular culture in stifling individual thought comes out vividly in this passage from the Republic (492a–c).   SOCRATES: The...

28 May, 2023

Love & Hate (OSHO)

If you love a person, in some moments you can hate. But that doesn't destroy love; rather, it gives a richness to love....

25 May, 2023

Saturn again became “king of the moons” passing Jupiter

The new discoveries mean that Saturn has not only reclaimed the top spot in the list of most known moons, surpassing Jupiter with...

24 May, 2023